The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-11-20
Manages Her Business at 1Oe.

BARRE, VT, November 6.-Mrs. Lucy
whitney, Wood was born in Jaffrey,
n. H.. January 16, 1885, being one of a
family of eleven children of Elias and
and Lucy Barnes Whitney. When she
vas an infant her parents moved to
Sterling, Mass, and after nine years
went to the adjoining town of Milford.
There, at the age of II, she married
John Wood, q native of Milford, who
died thirty years ago, and two years at-
ter moved to Barre, VT, where she has
resided ever since. She has been the
mother Of ten children, six sons and
tour daughters, of whom there are
living three sons and one daughter,
Miss Sophia Wood, aged about 20 years,
who resides with her mother. She has
had thIrty-twO grandchildren, as many
great grandChildren and several great
great-gTandchiidren so that when the
family is all at home i've generations
are represented.
OF her children, W. F. Wood in his
50 year, lives in Chelsea. Mass. ; Charles
Wood, in his Goth year, lives in Orange,
VT, but is at present in Boston for the
winter. Willis, her oldest son, died on
the day of his mothers Goth birthday,
at the age of r. Phineas, her oldest
living son is now so years Of age. This
shows that her descendants follow their
mother in the matter of longevity.
When she and her husband settled IN
Barre that now thriving and prosperous
town was almost a wilderness. Mr..
Wood and his wife had horror of liv-
ing in q log house, and with great diff
Guilty procured sawed timber for their
6rst house. One side of their abode
was open, and, as the old lady face
tiously observed. afforded q .lendid
opportunity for ventilation and the es-
cape of smoke, which the rude chimney
failed to carry off.
Mrs. Wood has been q hard working
woman all her life, and when the
reporter called on her a few days ago,
he found her still busy. She was
making parti-colored holders, made
IN iog-cabin style. The pieces are cut
arranged and sewed by her OVID hands,
and on the back side of each one is a
small pocket in which she places a slip
OF paper containing her autograph.
These souvenirs she sells to visitors at
10 cents each and realizes considerable
III ais way in the course of year
When the reporter was shown into her
presence she was in the act OF threading
fine needle. and to his surprise he saw
that her spectacles were lying on the
window sill, and that she was perform
ing { e difficult feat with the naked eye.
When questioned about her ability to
see, she declared that she could get
along better without than with glasses,
inasmuch as no glasses old enough for
her vera made. Since she was 80 she
had pieced up two bed quilts, the last of
which contained 1000 pieces, having
been finished on her Tooth birthday
Mrs, Wood was By birth and early
training Congregational;st, but after
her marriage and settlement in Barre
she Joined the Methodist Church, and
has been a stanch member of the
church ever since. ---t g. ..--....-
Up TO few years ago Mrs. Wood
had been as active and light of foot as
any woman of halt her years, but fall
which seriously injured one hip has
made her somewhat lame ever since.
Still she walks about the house IN
assisted, and takes care OF herself with
with little assistance. She is quite deaf,
which renders conversation with her
rather laborlous, but her mind is as
clear as It ever was, and she remembers
events of four score and.ten years ago
with as much distinctness as do her
grandchildren those of the past week.
She still manages all her own business.
looking after the buying of supplies for
the house and handling the finances
herself. OF this privilege she is very
tenacious, and in her dealings she de-
monstrates the fact that her business
aoumen is not dulied by years.
Mrs. Wood has never had fever or
ether Illness except such as are incident